but thats not the case.

when i go to 
/blogs/bmcblog/category/Biology%252FMedicine
i am not taken to Biology/Medicine category but i get a roller branded 404 error

because surely it thinks i want the category 'Biology' and '/Medicine' has been 
added to the end of the url

James Nott
Senior Developer, BioMed Central
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Direct Tel: 020 7631 9933


-----Original Message-----
From: Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 19 January 2007 02:27
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: special URL characters in Categories


On 1/18/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> if you have a category named "Biology/Medicine"
>
> the resultant link on the blog takes you to
> /blogs/bmcblog/category/Biology%252FMedicine
>
> which obviously is gonna cause havoc with urls.
>
> is this known about?

That should not be a problem. The category will be escaped properly
(as shown above) in your blog pages and feeds. URLs will be honored
correctly too; they'll just be a little ugly.

> i wonder what happens if you have an '&' or an '=' in category name???

The same goes for those characters.

- Dave




>

>
> James
>
>
>
>
> James Nott
> Senior Developer, BioMed Central
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Direct Tel: 020 7631 9933
>
>
>

Reply via email to